Chapter 486 Big Black Fish
Hearing Shi Beiyang’s words, Ma Chaoyang looked over and saw the recent man of the hour in Silicon Valley, Yahoo Chief Yang Zhiyuan!
Yahoo is definitely the most popular figure in the entire Silicon Valley since the second half of last year. The entire Yahoo is frantically promoting the title of Yahoo Chief. It is rumored that Yahoo will complete its listing this year, and Yang Zhiyuan will also become another Silicon Valley leader. A billionaire.
When Ma Chaoyang saw Yang Zhiyuan, he did not expect that this influential figure in Silicon Valley would come so early, obviously to support his big boss.
However, Ma Chaoyang is here to support his big boss tonight, so why not Yang Zhiyuan?
Li Dongling's Zhixing Foundation is also one of the shareholders of Yahoo, and is the general agent of Yahoo's brand across Asia. The market value of Yahoo after its listing, and how much its stock price can rise, are also closely related to the Zhixing Foundation. How can Yang Zhiyuan do it today? Not coming!
After Yang Zhiyuan, Ma Chaoyang met many people who were in the limelight in the Silicon Valley Internet circle, including Souxin founder Steve Kissiel, Souxin Chief Technology Officer William Zhang, and a People with Chinese faces came together.
In addition to the most famous Yahoo and Soxin, Ma Chaoyang also heard from other people about the arrival of many Silicon Valley Internet companies that he had never heard of before. He did not know where these companies came from. It came out of nowhere.
Including David Burnett, the founder of the GeoCities website, Gruner, the founder of the ASK search, and other figures who are not well-known on the Internet today, also came to the banquet today.
While Ma Chaoyang was still speculating on how many big shots from Silicon Valley would arrive today, there was a commotion in the banquet hall, and then Ma Chaoyang saw a group of people coming to the venue.
One of the two leaders was wearing a custom-made casual suit. Some of them needed expensive clothes to show off their status, while others wore their clothes to give a high-end feel. With Li Dongling's current identity and status, he already belongs to the lower class. Who!
The person holding Li Dongling's arm was Yao Luoying, who was dressed in a red dress and only wore simple jewelry, which completely highlighted her figure and temperament.
“Let us welcome Mr. Li Dongling, President of Dongling Hi-Tech and founder of Zhixing Foundation, and Ms. Yao Luoying, General Manager of Feiyan Technology!”
Zhou Hualiang walked to the banquet hall and set up a table Above, he spoke to those present, and then there was a burst of applause in the venue.
Ma Chaoyang, Shi Beiyang and other staff of Silicon Valley Himalaya Radio were stunned for a moment when they saw Li Dongling and Yao Luoying. If they hadn't heard Zhou Hualiang introduce their identities, they would have doubted what they were seeing in front of them. These two are male and female stars from China.
But then, after hearing the identities of Li Dongling and the others, Ma Chaoyang and others had obviously shocked expressions on their faces. Yao Luoying and the others were not familiar with them, but Li Dongling and the others were not. In the American Chinese circle, Li Dongling's reputation was quite high. Not small.
Ma Chaoyang and Shi Beiyang looked at each other. Both of them had shocked and excited expressions on their faces. Their big boss turned out to be Li Dongling. There was no need to worry about Himalaya Radio not being able to operate. question!
Yang Zhiyuan, Steve Kircher, David Burnett, Gruner and others present also looked at Li Dongling.
The reason why Zhou Hualiang mentioned Li Dongling as the founder of the Zhixing Foundation just now is because in Silicon Valley, the Zhixing Foundation invested in Yahoo and Soxin and was very successful. Compared with Dongling, Hi-Tech needs to be more famous!
And tonight, why did the founders of Internet companies such as David Burnett and Gruner, after hearing the news that the big donors of the Zhixing Foundation held a banquet, immediately ran over to see if there were any Opportunity to get venture capital from Zhixing Foundation!
"Should I call you Jerry..." Li Dongling and Yao Luoying came to Yang Zhiyuan first and shook hands with Yang Zhiyuan.
Looking at Li Dongling, who is the same age as himself, to be honest, Yang Zhiyuan can't help but be a little surprised. He is now the leader among Chinese Americans of the same age in America, even including other ethnic groups. If Yahoo can successfully go public, he will become an idol in the hearts of Chinese Americans and a new generation of young people.
But looking at Li Dongling in front of him, he couldn't feel any pride. Li Dongling's Zhixing Foundation was an investor in Yahoo, and it was the first investor. Even if Yahoo went public, it had just started to follow Compared with the valuation of Dongling Hi-Tech, I am afraid it is far inferior. As for the market value of exceeding 100 billion in the future, even Yang Zhiyuan does not dare to dream of such a dream now.
"Call me Zhiyuan, my family will naturally call me by my hometown name!"
There are too many people present, so this is definitely not the time to talk in detail. Li Dongling and Yang Zhiyuan are familiar with each other. After a few words, he walked towards the search engine again.
"President Steve!"
Li Dongling said hello to Steve Kihir and William Zhang, and then looked at the other man following them. For that face, Li Dongling But he is too familiar. After all, the other party is one of the three giants of domestic BAT.
"You must be Li Yanhong. I heard Lu Wenhua say that you are the best technical genius in the search industry!"
Li Dongling reached out to Li Yanhong, and his attitude towards Li Yanhong was more serious than towards Li Yanhong. It would take a few more points to search for the two executives.
Lu Wenhua is the general manager of Zhixing Foundation. When Lu Wenhua came to Silicon Valley and invested in Soxin, the two of them were familiar with each other. Li Yanhong did not expect that Li Dongling would remember him.
"Don't dare take it!" Li Yanhong behaved in a very humble and gentle manner. If he were just a technician instead of a company founder, then he would definitely be a popular technician in the Internet industry.
The search technology is the best in the world. He has a gentle personality and is humble and gentle. He is definitely a model for technicians. However, as a founder, his performance is hard to describe in one word, even a little. Indecisive.
No one knows what his attitude was about the negative news about Baidu in his previous life. Just for advertising fees, he wasted many transformation opportunities and missed many talents. He was highly expected to be able to compete with Google. In the end, he became the most scolded person in BAT, and it is more or less related to him.
“We have time to talk in detail!”
Li Dongling said something to Li Yanhong. This sentence was said in Chinese. Although Steve Kihir couldn't understand it, looking at the look on Li Yanhong's face, he always felt like he was being poached.
After Yang Zhiyuan, Steve Kircher, and Li Yanhong, Li Dongling exchanged greetings with a few people present and had a few more business cards in his hand. He saw the business cards of David Burnett and Gruner. When he came, Li Dongling couldn't help but look at the two of them a few more times.
He did not expect that there would be a few big black fish coming into this banquet. The GeoCities website is now engaged in website hosting business, which stores photos, videos, articles, etc. created by users on the GeoCities website. above.
What was later derived was something like QQ Space, but now the technology is not as convenient as in later generations. In the previous life, Yahoo acquired the GeoCities website for US$3.57 billion and renamed it Yahoo Global Village.
But to be honest, when Yahoo competes with some companies, it acquires one company and then sells another. Anyway, it cannot survive with the company in its pocket. After the GeoCities website was acquired , and the fate of being shut down is inevitable.
Li Dongling is not too concerned about whether the GeoCities website will be killed by Yahoo. However, Li Dongling is very concerned about the three to four billion US dollars spent by Yahoo to acquire the GeoCities website...
Except for the GeoCities website A big black fish, ASK is actually also a big fish, and was acquired by IAC for nearly two billion US dollars.
But in fact, it was too late for ASK to sell itself. It was acquired only a few years after the American Internet avalanche. If it had been sold on the eve of the Internet avalanche, it would have been sold to Yahoo, Microsoft, America Online, and Cisco , Disney, Murdoch and other giants, or merge with Google, the selling price or future income will be far more than 2 billion US dollars!
Li Dongling accepted the business cards of the founders of GeoCities and ASK, and gave his own business card to them, which made David Burnett and Gruner feel excited. .
After greeting everyone in the banquet hall, Li Dongling prepared to go on stage to give a short speech. Today's banquet is actually an opportunity to raise the flag of Himalayan Radio in Silicon Valley.
But just when Li Dongling came to power, two more waves of people arrived, one of which came uninvited, which was somewhat beyond the expectations of Li Dongling, Zhou Hualiang, and Larson.
“It’s Jim!”
“And Marc Andreessen, the digital hero on the cover of Time magazine!”
“That’s Moritz, Sequoia Investment partners!”
Standing in the crowd, Ma Chaoyang’s eyes widened when someone mentioned the identities of the people who came in. He did not expect Jim Clark, Anderson, and Mo Ritz, one of these Silicon Valley figures who can make Silicon Valley tremble just by stamping their feet, is actually here today.
"We didn't invite those two from Netscape, what are they doing here?!" Larson said to Li Dongling in a low voice.
Li Dongling shook his head slightly. No matter why the two founders of Netscape came here, if they wanted to mix in Silicon Valley and the American technology circle, not only to make friends with Jim Clark, at least they could not offend each other.
Jim Clark’s identity is not just as simple as the founder of Netscape. He also has another level of identity. He is the representative figure of Donkey Party donations and supporters in the Silicon Valley Internet circle, and he is also related to Washington. One of the closest characters.
Otherwise, why would Netscape be able to almost break up Microsoft? If Microsoft hadn't been so lucky, it encountered the collapse of the Nasdaq and the avalanche of the Internet. In order to save the Internet, the federal commander-in-chief and Capitol Hill had no choice but to If he does not stop splitting Microsoft to avoid the continued collapse of the Nasdaq index, it is impossible to say that Jim Clark can really split Microsoft into three!
(End of this chapter)